Publications
Publications
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,893)
- Faculty Publications (333)
Page 1 of
333
Results
→
- February 2021
- Case
Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community
By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin
Threadless, an online apparel company and artist community which Jake Nickell founded in 2000, continued to maintain its status as a top company in the online apparel industry during its second decade. From 2010 to 2020, Threadless continued to operated its...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Model;
Decision Making;
entrepreneurship;
innovation And Invention;
Leading Change;
Management;
Marketing;
Product Launch;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Distribution;
Networks;
Sales;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Technology;
Software;
Technology Platform;
Apparel And Accessories Industry;
Technology Industry;
North America
- February 2021
- Case
Brainlab: Imaging A MedTech Future
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Gregory P. Licholai and Federica Gabrieli
Can Brainlab, a privately held firm, compete with giants like Medtronic and Amazon in delivering the Digital Operating Room of the future? The CEO is pondering solutions for secure exchange of medical information, pricing a new robotic imaging device, and reorganizing...
View Details
Keywords:
Acquisition;
Surgery;
Robotics;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Health;
Health Care;
Health Care And Treatment;
Innovation And Invention;
Innovation And Management;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation And Strategy;
Private Healthcare;
Software;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Technology Platform;
Europe;
Germany;
Acquisition;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Growth And Development;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Corporate entrepreneurship;
Health Care And Treatment;
Health;
innovation And Invention;
innovation And Management;
innovation Strategy;
Technological innovation;
Software;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Health Industry;
Europe;
Germany;
Munich
- January 2021
- Case
Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Disruption;
entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Cash Flow;
Disruptive innovation;
innovation Strategy;
Brands And Branding;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Service Industry;
United States;
California
- January 2021
- Supplement
Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Disruption;
entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Cash Flow;
Disruptive innovation;
innovation Strategy;
Brands And Branding;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Service Industry;
United States;
California
- January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Susan Seligson
After hitting an all-time low in 2008, Domino’s Pizza underwent a vigorous rebranding, product development, and embraced innovative technologies to become the world’s leading international fast-food retailer. Domino’s considered itself as much a tech company as it was...
View Details
Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Digital Technology;
innovation;
Scaling;
Data Analytics;
Turnaround;
Technological innovation;
Technology;
Strategy;
Management;
Marketing;
Operations;
Human Resources;
entrepreneurship;
Change Management;
Analysis;
Performance;
Customers;
Growth And Development;
Competitive Advantage;
Employees;
Training;
Leadership Development;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
- 2021
- Book
We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
By: Mitchell Weiss
The huge public challenges we face are daunting. At the same time, many of us have come to accept the notion that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges—it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Not so. Entrepreneurial savvy in government is growing,...
View Details
- December 2020
- Teaching Note
Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
View Details
Keywords:
Women;
Racism;
Black Entrepreneurs;
entrepreneurship;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race;
Prejudice And Bias;
innovation And Invention;
City;
Culture;
Miami
- December 2020
- Case
Thinx, Inc.—Breaking Barriers in Feminine Care (Abridged)
By: Rembrand Koning, Elie Ofek and Nicole Keller
An examination of the strategic marketing challenges facing Thinx as it tries to grow in the face of menstruation taboos and competition from large incumbents.
View Details
- October 2020
- Case
Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
View Details
- October 2020
- Supplement
OpenIDEO (B)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe...
View Details
Keywords:
Innovation Competitions;
Ideo;
Contests;
Contest Design;
Platforms And Ecosystems;
Open Innovation;
Open And User Innovation Strategy;
Diversity;
Design;
Social entrepreneurship;
Global Range;
Collaborative innovation And Invention;
innovation Strategy;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Social And Collaborative Networks;
Health Pandemics;
Health;
Information;
Business And Community Relations
- September 2020
- Case
Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Network
By: Anita Elberse and Julia McNicholas
Chip and Joanna Gaines, who have shot to fame as stars of the hit television show Fixer Upper, are preparing to launch their own television network. It is April 2019, a year since the home-renovation show Fixer Upper’s fifth season on cable channel HGTV ended, and more...
View Details
Keywords:
Entertainment;
Television;
Superstars;
innovation;
Creative Industries;
Talent;
General Management;
Celebrities;
Television Entertainment;
entrepreneurship;
Joint Ventures;
innovation And Invention;
Marketing;
Strategy;
Entertainment And Recreation Industry;
Media And Broadcasting Industry
- 2020
- Working Paper
Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers
By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova
The treatment of foreign investors has been a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy in recent years. This paper examines foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We model a setting where such funding may...
View Details
- September 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Catalys Pacific
In 2019, BT Slingsby founds Catalys Pacific, the first biotech “venture creation” fund in Tokyo. After convincing some of the biggest Japanese pharmaceutical firms to invest, BT hopes the fund can make a big splash and transform biotechnology innovation in Japan. After...
View Details
Keywords:
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Biotech;
Health Care;
Entrepreneur;
innovation;
International Business;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
entrepreneurship;
Finance;
innovation Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Strategy;
Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Tokyo
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (D): Developing New Leadership
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Traditional establishment leadership of Miami is increasingly challenged by a rising millennial generation that is more diverse and brings more innovative and entrepreneurial “outside-the-building” approaches, including impatience for change. Leadership succession is...
View Details
Keywords:
Leaders;
Leadership;
Civic Innovation;
Change;
Change Leadership;
Startup;
Diversity;
Scaling And Growth;
Jurisdictional Disputes;
Communication;
Community Impact;
Community Relations;
Leading Change;
Leadership;
Diversity;
Demographics;
entrepreneurship;
Business And Community Relations;
Miami;
Florida
- August 6, 2020
- Blog Post
Interview with Professor Regina Herzlinger on Balancing Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance with a Prominent Academic Career
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jared Mueller
- July 2020
- Case
Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics
By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community...
View Details
Keywords:
Brands And Branding;
Competition;
Customers;
Disruption;
Disruptive innovation;
Distribution Channels;
entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Macroeconomics;
Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Product Positioning;
Sales;
Social Issues;
Social Marketing;
Business Startups;
Strategic Planning;
Strategy;
Supply Chain Management;
Venture Capital;
Advertising Industry;
Public Relations Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Beauty And Cosmetics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Retail Industry;
North And Central America;
United States;
New York (city, Ny);
New York (state, Us)
- July 2020
- Case
Michael Solomonov: Jerusalem in a Bowl
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook had begun to wonder whether it might be time to rethink their opportunistic approach to the expansion of their small restaurant empire in Philadelphia, CooknSolo. The pandemic, however, caused an...
View Details
Keywords:
Restaurant Industry;
Entrepreneur;
Covid-19;
Crisis;
Crisis Response Plans;
entrepreneurship;
Food;
Health Pandemics;
Crisis Management;
innovation And Invention;
Leadership;
Creativity;
Strategy;
Ownership;
Problems And Challenges;
Risk And Uncertainty;
Situation Or Environment;
Food And Beverage Industry;
United States
- Summer 2020
- Article
Tech Clusters
By: William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully...
View Details
- May 2020
- Case
M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation
By: Krishna Palepu and Allison M. Ciechanover
M-Lab’s founding goals were to infuse an innovation mindset into Mitsubishi Corporation; to catalyze new business opportunities; and to enable a dialogue between Japanese business and Silicon Valley. M-Lab housed representatives from each of Mitsubishi Corporation’s...
View Details